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View of Larkspur at sunrise as seen from the Blue Rock Inn, formerly Hotel Merwin built in 1895. Larkspur is a city in Marin County, California, United States. Larkspur is located directly south of Kentfield and 3 miles (4.8 km) south of San Rafael, [7] at an elevation of 43 feet (13 m). [1] As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 13,064.
The Lark Theater was built by the Blumenfeld family in 1936, over a horse-shoe pit. It anchors the North End of Larkspur's historic downtown district, and is designated a Larkspur Heritage Building. [3] It is a contributing structure in the Larkspur Downtown Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In 1980, the Larkspur City Council designated it to be a local historic district and rezoned it as an overlay H Zone. [2] The historic district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1] It was asserted that the district is significant because it still has the ambiance of a small California town in the 1900–1930 era. [2]
Larkspur Landing, also known as Larkspur Ferry Terminal, is the main Golden Gate Ferry terminal in Larkspur, California, in Marin County, north of San Francisco. The terminal is a regional hub receiving heavy service from throughout the North Bay for commuter ferries south to downtown San Francisco.
[1] [2] In 1980 Corte Madera and its neighbor Larkspur merged their police departments into the Twin Cities Police Authority. Then on January 1, 2013, after two years of planning and public discussion, the Twin Cities Police Authority and the police department of San Anselmo merged agencies and became the Central Marin Police Authority.
Larkspur-Corte Madera School District is a school district headquartered in Larkspur, California. [2] Its schools include Neil Cummins Elementary School, [3] Henry Hall Middle School, and the Cove School. [4] Its boundary includes much of Larkspur, most of Corte Madera, and a section of Kentfield. [5]
Larkspur station is a Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) station [4] in Larkspur, California. The terminal station opened to revenue service on December 14, 2019. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] It is located 1 ⁄ 3 mile (0.5 km) from the Larkspur Landing ferry terminal, across Sir Francis Drake Boulevard .
With his brother Pierre, Jean Escalle immigrated to Larkspur in 1881 from France, to join his friend and fellow French immigrant Claude Callot in operating a brickworks. [3] [4] Callot had been operating the brickworks since 1874, having leased it from a Patrick King that year and then outright bought it in 1879; and in the year of the arrival of the Escalles they together built a house, a ...